B6238 crash in Rossendale on 15 September 2011 at 17:00 involving a Fiat Punto
A vehicle and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the B6238 in Rossendale at 17:00 on Thursday 15 September 2011. The 60-year-old male driver of the Fiat Punto was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 2011
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70071, longitude -2.2498, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rawtenstall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hareholme & Waterfoot, Rossendale, BB4 9AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104FL11093
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6238
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 1994.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 15 May 1994
5 m awayRef 199404P038094
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 28 June 1996
14 m awayRef 199604P010796
Slight
Car crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 15 July 1989
16 m awayRef 1989040EK1968
Slight
Car crash on the B6238 in Hyndburn, 18 June 1980
21 m awayRef 1980040HM0606
Slight
Van crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 24 May 1982
21 m awayRef 1982040HM0532
Slight
Car crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 11 June 1985
24 m awayRef 1985040HM0618
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201104FL11093 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rossendale road accident statistics for 2011.